Proverbs 17:7

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Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Useless are the legs of the lame, and a proverb, in the mouth of a dullard.

But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth?

Hypocrite! cast first, out of thine own eye, the beam, - and, then, shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote, out of the eye of thy brother.

An oracle, is on the lips of a king, in giving sentence, his mouth must not be unfaithful.

When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.

Said the God of Israel, Unto me, spake the Rock of Israel: - One Ruling over Men, A Righteous One, ruling in the reverence of God,

Nay, verily, GOD, will not condemn unjustly, - nor, the Almighty, pervert justice.

I will not set before mine eyes, a vile thing, - The doing of them who fall away, I hate, It shall not cleave unto me;

A lip that is faithful, shall be firm to futurity, but, only for a twinkling, is the tongue that is false.